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recidivism
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 Committing new offenses after being punished for a crime. 2 (context psychology psychiatry English) chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior. 3 (label en by extension) Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"habit of relapsing" (into crime), 1882, from recidivist + -ism , modeled on French récidivisme , from récidiver .
WordNet
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n. habitual relapse into crime
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recidivism \Re*cid"i*vism\ (r[-e]*s[i^]d"[i^]*v[i^]z'm), n. The state or quality of being recidivous; relapse, specif. (Criminology), a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits, esp. after conviction and punishment. The old English system ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Recidivism (; from recidive and ism , from Latin recidīvus "recurring", from re- "back" and cadō "I fall") is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they had either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or had been trained ...
Usage examples of recidivism.
Hazenkamp a couple of times in his prosecutor days, seen him speak on prison conditions, recidivism rates, the usual.
The system had less than two decades of history, but they had, so far, a spectacularly low recidivism rate.
Three similarly masked blind men stood nearby passing out printed leaflets about cultural recidivism and the coming Dark Age.
The success rate for preventing recidivism was abysmally low, even with the most ambitious programs--which required strong incentives for offenders to change their view of the world.
Despite the fact that the latest studies indicated a recidivism rate equal to that of regular carceration programs, money, starved states continued to push them.
The program was very successful, with a much lower recidivism rate than the prison system, at far less cost to the taxpayers.
Indeed, in the event of future recidivism, the young criminals would do quite well in jail.
Incidents of recidivism decline after age thirty and almost vanish after age forty.
Muravieff has performed in achieving a level of quality education for the inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility, and because he feels she has contributed substantially to the lowest rate of recidivism for a corrections facility in the state and one of the lowest rates in the nation, because Victoria Bannister Muravieff has set a standard for community service under the most difficult of conditions, with a selfless disregard for her own situation and a commitment to the rehabilitation of people the rest of us have given up on long ago, the governor has decided to commute her sentence to time served.
Despite the fact that the latest studies indicated a recidivism rate equal to that of regular carceration programs, money, starved states continued to push them.
His recidivism rate did nothing to enhance his reputation, and he has undone when the inevitable happened - a few of the young men and women with whom he had cut a deal found their parents to be, if perhaps misguided, nonetheless acting out of love and broke down and told them the truth.
Still, when you thought about these cybernetic triumphs and what they were capable of, and how a psychiatrist as cunning as Dr Wapenshaw would be quite likely to have banks of electronic brains working for him (and all at National Health expense), then it was just about possible that the summons might be about this particular hole-in-the-corner thing that Hogg had done, an act of recidivism, to use the fashionable jargon.